Wednesday, January 31, 2024

The De-evolution of the West; Medicine Has Been Fully Militarized...more

History and merely observing today’s world shows that Western Civilization is not the default human condition. It may, in fact, be the exception, and it is certainly not permanent once established. It is fragile and not everyone wants it. Countless intellectuals are railing against it, and they should be taken seriously. Few Americans, and millions of those besieging our Southern border, want to live on a pile of sand.
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Globalist Pope Francis is still trying to normalize his train-wreck document Fiducia Suplicans, that prompted negative reactions from hundreds of Conservative bishops all over the world.

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For over a year, the Biden administration and its surrogates have dropped hint after hint that the plan for winning in 2024 — against Donald Trump or anyone else — might involve something other than voting. Lawsuits in multiple states have been filed to remove Trump from the ballot; primaries have been canceled or invalidated; an ominous Washington Post editorial by Robert Kagan, husband to senior State official Victoria Nuland, read like an APB to assassins to head off an “inevitable” Trump dictatorship; and on January 11th of this year, leaders of a third party group called “No Labels” sent an amazing letter to the Department of Justice, complaining of a “conspiracy” to stop alternative votes.

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Crime Has Gotten So Bad In Blue City That Companies Are Now Paying For Security Escorts To Protect Employees   Violent crime in Oakland spiked 21% from 2022 to 2023, according to Oakland crime statistics. Robberies rose 38%, burglaries increased 23% and the city recorded 120 homicides.

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At this writing, virtually all the major healthcare systems, specialty regulatory boards, specialty associations, and medical schools are standing at attention, still in lockstep with the received – and by now, clearly false – narrative. Their funding, after all, be it from Pharma or the Government, depends upon their obedience. Barring dramatic change, they will respond in the same fashion when orders come down from above in the future. Medicine has been fully militarized.

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

The Spooky Blackout Of Border News; The Hiring Scandal at the FAA...more

18,000  Border Patrol agents support Texas, blast Biden admin A statement released on Thursday by the NBPC, which is the official union for over 18,000 U.S. Customs Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees, pushed back against what the union described as “fake news” reports that Border Patrol agents would be arresting Texas National Guardsmen at the border. Image

When many of us became aware of this was during the COVID crisis. Reading the news, it appeared as if every expert agreed with the policies that were wrecking business life and society in general while holding out no chance of finally ending the virus. We knew many scientists and medical doctors who were not in favor of these policies and yet they were being silenced on social media and never interviewed in the mainstream press.

Then the floods of reality hit with emails and edicts coming directly from government agencies to block this information and that and hit particular accounts with takedown orders. Many of us did not know this sort of thing could happen in the United States because we have a First Amendment that restricts the government from interfering with free speech even if by using third parties to achieve the aim. But it did happen.

Rep. Ilhan Omar Represents Everything Wrong With America’s Immigration System... Immigration and border policy should first serve the interests of Americans, to the exclusion of all other peoples and nations

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School Board in Stamford, CT, Votes to Remove Veterans Day and Columbus Day From School Holidays...  “Honoring Christopher Columbus in statues, parades or the holiday has become a divisive issue given his role in the evolution of colonialism and slavery” 

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The whole thing sounds like a right-wing fever dream but as the saying goes, it’s real and it’s spectacular. And that’s precisely why you haven’t heard much about it from the mainstream media and why a left-leaning blogger is getting the story out. This is a pretty clear case where a DEI pressure group— the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees—convinced the FAA to drop standards and then further gamed the new system from the inside for the benefit of the group’s members. All of this including the FAA “investigation” which cleared those involved stinks to high heaven but we’re not supposed to talk about that because we can’t let the right have a win on DEI at this moment in time or, you know, ever.

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The insiders get rich and get to feel important, at everyone else’s expense.
In America, it’s harder to make such comparisons, but certainly the last half-century has seen an enormous transfer of wealth from the middle classes to the educated insiders. 
No wonder the latter are so scared.

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New Jersey’s Plastic Ban Did Not Work, Report Shows...The ban caused a much larger carbon footprint. Since the ban took effect, though, it looks like the state’s consumption of plastic for bags spiked to three times as much, according to a report from Freedonia Custom Research that was commissioned by the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance.
   The total number of plastic bags did go down, falling by 60%  to 894 million bags, but the problem was the alternatives ended up having a much larger carbon footprint.
   Most of New Jersey’s stores switched to reusable shopping bags, the kind often sold in supermarkets. These bags are made with non-woven polypropylene, which uses more than 15 times more plastic, and they are often not recycled.


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Wretch, wrath, hell, grave
Q: What do those four words have in common?
A: They’re all words from popular Christian songs that have been removed or replaced with an entirely different word or concept.

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This Story from the 3rd Century Will Sound Quite Familiar to You But Valerian was a guy with decades of experience. He was a longtime Senator, plus he had previously held one of the top positions in Rome’s executive branch. So, people naturally thought he would be the solid leader that Rome needed.
Unfortunately, Valerian turned out to be a complete disaster.

"Off-The-Rails Psychologically" - The Democratic Party Will Do Anything To Avert Losing Control Of Govt   I’m sure you can see exactly where all this is going. By all this, I refer to the cortège of disasters orchestrated by “Joe Biden” and associates — with help from a power-crazed globalist cabal — hauling our country at a gallop now to the graveyard of empires. Is there any question that they are out to wreck Western Civ? And speeding up the action because too many actual citizens are rising to oppose their degenerate wickedness?

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Monday, January 29, 2024

Denationizing the United States; America’s Immigration System Is Cruel—to Americans...more

Denationizing the United States 
The modern leftists are fighting so fiercely for the “rights of immigrants,” not because the fate of illegal aliens worries them in any way. It is because globalists anticipate illegal immigrants as the main “engine of the revolution,” which must bring about socialist transformations and catapult the globalists to power. Consequently, the greater the number of “engines” in a country, the happier the elite of the globalist party will be. So, naturally, they call (irrationally and contrary to common sense) for opening the United States borders, dissolving the Border Patrol, and granting the right to vote to non-citizens.

In essence, the World Economic Forum coterie runs the program of denationization of the United States. The position of globalists on this issue is ultra-uncompromising because, for them, illegal immigration is not a legal issue but a political and close to existential one.

America’s Immigration System Is Cruel—to Americans....The federal government is in a state of rebellion against the American people. The costs of this betrayal will keep mounting until something breaks.   Americans are paying a staggering cost for the federal government’s refusal to control mass immigration. The relentless influx costs billions of dollars in public services. It leaves Americans vulnerable to being needlessly and tragically victimized by unvetted criminals. Most cruel of all, it erases American communities through the silent, steady, and unwanted accumulation of a foreign population.

Under the Biden administration, enough migrants have poured into the country to replace the populations of multiple states. In December alone, 300,00 migrants crossed the border—enough people to replace the entire populations of some small American cities. That doesn’t include the unknown number of “gotaways” who bypassed border agents altogether.

The Immigration Crisis Shows Just How Much Contempt America’s Establishment Has For Democracy   America’s avoidable immigration crisis is now the No. 1 concern of voters, ahead of inflation and the economy. So why is no one in D.C. interested in holding Biden accountable?

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Trucker Convoy Heading to Southern Border Hotspots to Protest Biden Border Crisis...Take Our Border Back Southern Border Convoy protests slated for Jan. 29 to Feb. 3 
Of course, the leftist (Democrat) media is already painting the truckers as right-wing extremists. As an extra bonus, the administration propagandists are also smearing the participants as religious nuts.

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Sweden: Three Muslim Migrants Rape Underage Girl...How a country commits suicide. Two well-known academic researchers, studying the background of those convicted of sexual crimes including rape, came to a conclusion they had not expected: that foreign-born, mostly Muslim, migrants had rates of conviction for sexual assault, and especially for rape, far out of proportion to their numbers in the general population.

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3 American troops killed, 25 injured in attack on Jordan base near Syria border   U.S. troops long have used Jordan as a basing point, and the attack took place in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border.

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Offshore Wind and the Stress on Commercial Fishermen  Congressional Republicans are sounding the Mayday alarm this weekend to the grave challenges commercial fishermen face resulting from the Biden administration’s offshore wind agenda.

Offshore wind development is placing enormous stress on the American commercial fishing fleet, which may not survive these challenges. A trio of coastal lawmakers, Reps. Andy. Harris (R-Md.), Chris Smith (R.-N.J.), and Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) will explore offshore wind farm interactions at an upcoming hearing, which their colleagues and the public should heed.

President Joe Biden casts himself as a friend to American workers, but his poor treatment of fishermen and their communities puts the lie to this claim.

How Climate Policy Went Wrong...A scientist’s aerosol research hints at why America’s energy suicide isn’t helping.   The scientific effort is noble but becoming more and more beside the point. Long before we know which climate forecasts are right, thanks to the inevitable nerds at the Congressional Research Service or Government Accountability Office we’ll know in detail how many trillions we spent on climate subsidies that had no effect on climate.

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The Planet Is Saved Now: Climate Lunatics Throw Soup on the Mona Lisa  It’s an annoying and stupid form of protest. Couldn’t all this soup (and mashed potatoes, and cake) have gone to feed the starving people for which these leftists are supposedly agitating? In any case, there is going to be a lot more of it, and worse. One principal reason why this is so is that as this self-righteous and ignorant vandalism continues, authorities do little or nothing to stop it. In the Louvre on Sunday, all that museum security officials did was put black screens between the Riposte Alimentaire soup-throwers and the aghast museum visitors, who were then evacuated.

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The Billion-Dollar Battery Charger  
President Biden promised 500,000 E.V. charging stations to help us all migrate to battery-operated vehicles with the promise of maintaining our traveling and commuting lifestyle across the length and breadth of our country. The promise of these for the price of a mere $7.5 billion, has borne the fruit, so far, of one -- one -- charging station. That it's in the middle of nowhere and no one is using it shouldn't be surprising. No one wants these things, so no one is really building them. This one, essentially a $7.5 billion charging station, was obsolete before the CO2 off-gassing of its curing concrete had completed. It’s almost as though Biden doesn’t believe this stuff, either…

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Justin Trudeau and the rise of the liberal strongman...His crackdown on the truckers heralded a new era of ‘centrist’ authoritarianism.    Justin Trudeau’s unconstitutional assault on the truckers suggests that ‘illiberal liberalism’ is far too weak a term for the stark, authoritarian turn of our ‘liberal’ elites. These people aren’t just hypocritical or inconsistent or a bit unprincipled when it comes to fundamental liberties. When backed into a corner, they will happily carry on like your average despot, cracking down hard on those who dare to challenge their increasingly brittle authority. Like so many rulers in history, they are becoming more authoritarian the more their legitimacy ebbs. All the more reason to stand with the workers, truckers, farmers and everyday voters fighting for freedom and democracy and being met with the fury of the new elites. The attempt to put down the new populist revolts cannot be allowed to succeed. For that really would be tragic. Image

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Boys Will be Boys, Not Girls, on the Golf Course   Feminist and “women’s rights” groups are conspicuously silent, throwing women athletes under the bus to further this destructive woke agenda.
Where is the “equity” in all of this? The years of training, hard work, sacrifice, on the part of girls and their parents, helping young women reach the pinnacle of their sports, only to have to take a back seat to a male athlete “identifying” as a female.

It’s a travesty and huge setback for women’s rights and if it continues will destroy women’s sports. Where is the outcry?

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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Pope defends Vatican guidance on same-sex couples...

The pontiff elaborated on the reasoning behind the declaration, which received backlash from conservative Catholics who viewed the document as contradictory to church teaching on sexuality. It also received praise from LGBT-affirming Catholics who view it as a "step forward."

"The intention of 'pastoral and spontaneous blessings' is to tangibly demonstrate the closeness of the Lord and of the Church to all those who, finding themselves in various situations, ask for help to continue — sometimes to begin — a journey of faith," said Francis.

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Former intelligence chief predicts Europe's 'submission' to Islam Along with imposing migration, European politicians have taken other measures to help establish and empower Islam in Europe, to the detriment of the natives. Thus, free speech is all but gone in Ireland, after the Irish rose in anger following yet another unprovoked assault by a Muslim (the stabbing of three small children and their caretaker). And in Denmark, which long welcomed the mockery of Christianity under the guise of “freedom of expression,” mockery of Islam is now strictly forbidden.

Unchecked migration is only possible because nihilistic Europeans have no motivation to halt the transformation of their continent or eject their traitorous leaders...

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MIT Parents Press School To Address 'Threatening' Anti-Israel Disruptions   In a letter sent to MIT president Sally Kornbluth and other top officials, the parents expressed "serious concern about the spring 2024 semester," citing anti-Israel student groups' "threatening acts" and vows to escalate their demonstrations. One such group, MIT Coalition Against Apartheid, is threatening to shut down "business as usual at MIT until Palestine is free," rhetoric that reflects the need for MIT to "strictly" enforce its harassment and bullying policies and "restore a serious and respectful learning environment," according to the parents.

"Last fall, our children came to campus expecting an atmosphere of learning and instead were subjected to frequent protests and disruptions," the parents wrote. "This cannot continue. Our students deserve an atmosphere conducive to learning and growth, and it is the responsibility of the administration to provide it."

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Saturday, January 27, 2024

"There's No Voting Ourselves Out Of This" -Restoration Through Catastrophe...more

Even though Frederic Bastiat lived two centuries ago, his wisdom echoes across the ages. His quote below is proof human nature never changes, despite technological advancement. He captures in one sentence the current state of affairs in the U.S. and most of western civilization.
"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe."- Frederic Bastiat
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The Domestic Terrorists of Tomorrow are Blocking Traffic Today...The "cause" is the process of finding those willing to kill.  Blocking traffic or airports isn’t really about ending Israeli attacks on Hamas, but about inflicting misery on Americans and making the leftist perpetrators feel powerful and self-righteous by expressing their malice. Don’t think of these as protests: think of them as initiation sessions like those of gangs and cults in which new members prove themselves by hurting someone.

Protest theater rewards leftist activists by making them into the focus of attention. Cameras are on them as they berate anyone in sight, from kids with cancer to Alec Baldwin, for their lack of empathy, and then, justified by the conviction that everyone else is bad, they make them suffer. Image

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No diploma? No problem! Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals


College students aren't all that smart: IQ average falls to 102   The "college for all" movement and easy access to student loans persuaded most high school graduates to give college a try. However, only 58 percent of students complete a degree within six years, Pomeroy notes. Students with lower IQs are more likely to drop out. "One influential study showed that for white American undergraduates with an IQ only slightly above average, their chance of graduating is essentially 50-50."

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Journalist David Zweig spotted an interesting paper released by the British Medical Journal. It concerns the effectiveness of HEPA filters in classrooms as a means of slowing or stopping the spread of Covid. The study looked at German kindergarten classrooms with and without the system and concluded there was no difference. 

It’s not a surprising conclusion, once you think about it, simply because Covid is spread, if it is contracted at all, the way such coronaviruses are spread, namely through person-to-person aerosols. The major global efforts at “purifying” everything in sight was largely a waste, virus-control theater to give authorities something to do and a way to keep people hopping around like wallabies to avoid the invisible enemy.

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Shocking Documents Found at Border Demonstrate 
Extreme Coordination and Resources of Invaders

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Friday, January 26, 2024

The Two Americas; The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile-the medical world is worried....more


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The Two Americas...The rich, as F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, are different  “These results confirm what people have long suspected,” the report states. “Today, there are two Americas.” As the authors write in their executive summary,

The people who run America, or at least think they do, live in a bubble of their own construction. They’ve isolated themselves from everyday America’s realities to such a degree their views about what is and what should be happening in this country differ widely from the average American’s.

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The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here's why the medical world is worried.   American patients undergo an estimated 40 million MRI scans each year to help diagnose cancer, brain and spinal cord injuries, strokes and heart conditions. The superconductive magnet-powered imaging machines give doctors clear, high-resolution images of areas inside the body they can’t see on X-rays and CT scans. But without liquid helium, the Earth’s coldest element, MRI machines can’t keep their magnets cool enough to generate these images. 

The sale of the government’s stockpile of the nonrenewable element could exacerbate an existing supply shortage, Saha said.
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More Americans Than Ever Have No Religious Affiliation   While the vast majority claimed morality to be unattached from religion, there is no denying the lack of societal consensus on what constitutes morality. 

In the past, cultural mores represented morality as it was unilaterally understood. Now, there is cultural and political chaos — in large part driven by disagreement over basic ideas that never used to be controversial.
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“Most Americans agree that religion should not dictate public policy, but these proposed rules are rooted in ingrained religious biases about gender roles,” she wrote. “Those biases are unethical and unbiblical. Our trans neighbors are radiant gifts of God, just like Joseph and Deborah, and they are terrified by our government trying to legislate them out of existence.”
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Nigerian Christians have been slaughtered in the tens of thousands by Nigerian Muslims. When press coverage hasn’t been M.I.A., it’s resorted to a lazy “climate change” explanation. Not even the Biden administration seems to care. Don’t these black lives matter? Image

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Why are Thousands of Pharmacies Closing? Competition and the upsurge in shoplifting in soft-on-crime big cities are not the main causes. Kerrigan placed most of the blame on third-party Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM).  “PBMs negotiate discounts from drugmakers [sic] on behalf of insurers.  PBMs also administer reimbursements from the system’s payers -- insurers, federal and state governments, and corporations -- to providers, including pharmacies and clinics.”  Kerrigan added that “PBMs have made the system increasingly complex, enabling them to extract outsized revenue from it while crowding out the small mom-and-pop drugstores.”

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The good news is that Drudge’s demise has allowed a number of other aggregator sites to bloom.

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The Story of the Decade: New documents strengthen—perhaps conclusively—the lab-leak hypothesis of Covid-19’s origins   Both Beijing and Washington have covered up information about the origin of SARS2. Washington’s obfuscation has been aided by the puzzling inability of its 17 intelligence agencies to discover documents in the U.S. government’s own possession, and by a mainstream press too opinionated and ignorant of science to understand the story of the decade. U.S. responsibility lies in having allowed two senior health-research officials, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins, to promote gain-of-function research (enhancing natural viruses) for years without adequate safety oversight or scientific consensus.

70% of Embalmers Report Finding Strange Blood Clots Beginning in Mid-2021 In a recent survey of 269 embalmers across four major countries and three continents, more than 70% reported finding strange fibrous white blood clots in significant percentages of corpses in 2023 — clots they were not finding pre-pandemic.
   A similar survey conducted in late 2022 revealed that 66% of embalmers began finding the unusual clots in mid-2021, suggesting a temporal link to the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began earlier that year.

The shocking testimony of the Covid-19 nurses 
According to Olszewski the throughput was like a factory production line, manufacturing the desired mortality data. Nurses, normally reticent in challenging decisions made by doctors in a rigid hierarchical culture, failed to put their patients first. They were complicit in state-sanctioned murder. This was particularly awful in the public hospitals of New York, where the majority of patients were poor and funded by Medicare, the federal system that incentivised use of ventilators, paying hospitals $39,000 per case. As patients were expected to perish, little care was given and they lay unwashed on their faeces. As soon as a corpse was carried out, the apparatus was used for the next admission.

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

‘Europeans Will Succumb to Islam,’ Says Former Intelligence Chief...more

‘Europeans Will Succumb to Islam,’ Says Former Intelligence Chief   Along with imposing migration, European politicians have taken other measures to help establish and empower Islam in Europe, to the detriment of the natives.  Thus, free speech is all but gone in Ireland, after the Irish rose in anger following yet another unprovoked assault by a Muslim (the stabbing of three small children and their caretaker). And in Denmark, which long welcomed the mockery of Christianity under the guise of “freedom of expression,” mockery of Islam is now strictly forbidden.

Unchecked migration is only possible because nihilistic Europeans have no motivation to halt the transformation of their continent or eject their traitorous leaders, suggested Maaßen.

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Here Are All The States Standing With Texas Against Biden’s Border Assault  More than two dozen states expressed support for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott after he refused to kowtow to the Biden administration’s bullying about the ongoing border crisis. Image

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What Fuels the Single Motherhood Epidemic  Women have learned to celebrate their sexual objectification and been taught a mentality that says, “I don’t need no man.”

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Whatever the alleged gains that might be made by showing the couple a morally amorphous form of love or by avoiding giving offense, the price of attendance is huge. Much has been made of the perplexity sown by the pope’s recent statement about blessing gay couples. Just as momentous for individuals and churches could be the confusion sown by a failure to think clearly about attending gay weddings. After all, attendance so as to show “love” or avoid giving offense is a form of blessing, just without the name. Image
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Tucker Carlson Calls Covid-19 “The Greatest Crime Ever Committed”

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Poll: Elites Really Do Live in a Different World; Federal Judge Rules DEI/CRT Trainings and Policies Can Violate Federal Law...more

Maine Follows Blueprint To Legalize New Form Of Child Trafficking   After reading through Maine’s new legislation — “An Act to Safeguard Gender-affirming Health Care” — which effectively makes Maine a “sanctuary state” for minors seeking sex change treatment, I had one simple question: If this becomes law, could someone out of state, say from a groomer organization like the Trevor Project, lure a minor and traffic the child to Maine to get castrated?
     As if to confirm the worst nightmares of conservative parents everywhere, lawyers told me unequivocally: yes.
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Thomas Edsall, New York Times op-ed contributor, is concerned. That’s the headline of his new column. Gosh. I, for one, hope we can hold on to the Biden Normal. You know, like the tranny who fondled his boobs at a White House Pride ceremony...
...Or the US Navy’s attempt to reverse the recruitment collapse by promoting a cross-dressing sailor as an ambassador of the new Navy’s standards...

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New Poll Proves That American Elites Really Do Live in a Different World  According to the poll commissioned by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, today's elites believe that you, the "smelly Walmart shoppers," "deplorables," and "bitter clingers," have too much freedom by a wide margin. More remarkably, a whopping 84% of this group believes Joe Biden is doing a bang-up job! They love his plan to ration energy and resources.

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Numerous research papers from Harvard found filled with errors and false data  Obviously Harvard has not cared, especially at its upper levels. These are the so-called elites at this cancer research facility, holding important positions running the institution. Yet they are either incompetent, repeatedly allowing errors to slip through that should have been spotted beforehand, or purposely falsified the data in order to get their papers published.

The evidence of a corrupt and bankrupt academia first became obvious in the 2000s in connection with the climate change and the climategate emails. The emails showed a complete disinterest in the facts by a large cadre of top big-name climate scientists. Instead, the scientists conspired together to falsify the data to prove global warming was happening, while using their power to destroy the careers of any scientists who questioned their work.

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Federal Judge Rules DEI/CRT Trainings and Policies Can Violate Federal Law In an important development in the battle against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT), a federal judge has ruled that DEI/CRT trainings and policies can be so one-sided and discriminatory that they can constitute a “hostile work environment” for white employees subjected to them.

We Are Watching the DEI Demise of Airlines Happening in Real Time and It Is Terrifying AF But even through the end of the 20th century, air travel was still tolerable and efficient. We're pretty sure the real hell started with the inception of the TSA. Like most government-mandated alphabet organizations, the TSA has proven to be utterly useless and just an endless suck of taxpayer money. Post-TSA, everything has seemed to just start careening downhill. Fast. 

But up until very recently, at the very least, you could usually count on air travel to be (mostly) safe.

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Only Candidates of Color Need Apply? In higher ed, the fight against a racial spoils system continues   Much to UW’s embarrassment, a public-records request made by the National Association of Scholars unearthed multiple communication records between the hiring committee and the Faculty of Color group discussing the exclusion of white faculty from meetings with the candidates. The groups also colluded to cover up racial classifications in hiring and talked about circumventing the Supreme Court’s landmark ban on race-based college admissions.

‘People of color’ can’t be racist against whites, UW-Madison teaches law students  The list, required reading prior to the “Re-Orientation” includes 28 ways in which certain attitudes and behaviors “indicate a detour or wrong turn into white guilt, denial or defensiveness.” Students were also asked to fill out a “race timeline worksheet” with at least “7 significant moments” that were connected to race and identity.
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Public Education's Alarming New 4th 'R': Reversal of Learning: Call it the big reset–downward  The learning loss debacle is the latest chapter in the decade-long decline in public schools. Achievement among black and Latino students on state tests was already dropping before COVID drove an exodus of families away from traditional public schools in search of a better education. Although by lowering standards and lifting the graduation rate districts have created the impression that they have bounced back, experts say that’s the wrong signal to send, creating complacency when urgency is needed.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Secular “Church”?; Dangers in Interpreting Circumstances...more

Secular “Church”? How Some Atheists Are Trying to Fill the Void Left Behind by Their Rejection of God The rise of secular “churches” serves as a poignant reminder that everyone worships. Atheism, at the end of the day, is a myth. As creatures, we were made to know and worship our Creator. Refusing to worship the true God doesn’t mean that you don’t worship — it just means that, ultimately, you worship idols. The prophet Jeremiah condemns this misguided and futile effort to replace God: “for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water” (Jeremiah 2:13).

Secular assemblies are nothing more than broken cisterns, hewn by human hands, that hold no water. These poor people are dying of thirst but digging wells in all the wrong places. Their humanistic gatherings betray their need for living water — which can only be found in a Christian church that worships the true Christ, who affirmed and fulfilled the Scriptures, and who was crucified for our sins, raised to life for our justification, and now rules and reigns over all things. Image

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I think sometimes we should not look at circumstances as having any spiritual plan behind them. Other times, I do believe that God guides us through circumstances. But I want to propose that sometimes circumstances are guided, but not by God. I believe it is possible that Satan at times guides are circumstances for his own purposes. There was certainly some planning going on behind the circumstances in Job’s life which were permitted by God, but planned by Satan. Satan is a real person, one who has plans, one who hates God and us. I don’t doubt for a second that Satan too has a plan for our lives. But that plan is not for our good, or our success.

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Chinese Illegal Numbers Still Spiking, Mostly Single Adults; New synthetic opioids up to 1,000 times more potent than morphine...more

Chinese Illegal Numbers Still Spiking, Mostly Single Adults   With over 24,000 illegal aliens from China encountered by Border Patrol in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, and over 9,000 so far in FY 2024, America clearly has a national security risk on its hands, especially since so many of these migrants are military-age youth. This is not racist; any illegal aliens are a security risk, but three facts make the mainland China influx worrying.

The Other Biden Border Crisis: Thousands of Dogs Abandoned Along Southern Border   “tons of migrants are trying to cross the border with their dogs, only to be told they can’t bring the pups with them to federal processing centers … resulting in strays roaming the border”

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'Devout Catholic' Biden Wants to 'Strengthen Access' to Abortion, Contraceptions   No Catholic should mourn the loss of Roe v. Wade. But Biden is sad SCOTUS made the “extreme decision” to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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These new synthetic opioids could make fentanyl crisis look like 'the good old days'...Up to 1,000 times more potent than morphine   These drugs are not only appearing in adulterated opioids. A U.K. drug testing service determined that, since September, nitazenes have been found in 20 samples of black-market benzodiazepines (common tranquilizers such as Xanax) taken from all parts of the country.
  People who purchase benzodiazepines on the black market wouldn’t expect nitazenes to be a contaminant and could become overdose victims.

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Swiss banker and World Economic Forum "agenda contributor", Hubert Keller: "The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee... Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the atmosphere."

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5G Wireless Technology Is a DISASTER Waiting to Happen   As 5G technology continues to be rolled out globally, concerns over its potential health and privacy impacts have reached a fever pitch. While some areas are actively embracing the latest generation of wireless communication, others are imposing moratoriums or outright bans.
  Global Research has listed 13 reasons, exposing the dangers of 5G and shedding light on the potential risks that could turn into a colossal health and privacy catastrophe if not addressed promptly.

CDC Labeled Accurate Articles As Misinformation, Documents Show    Government agencies, including the CDC, were found to have conspired with social media companies to censor a wide range of speech, including posts that provided accurate information about COVID-19 vaccines. As part of that effort, the CDC passed on misinformation to Facebook, documents showed. The agency has also offered misinformation about vaccines in presentations and on social media.

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Lucifer-loving musical cartoon "Hazbin Hotel" premiered on Amazon Prime on Friday, January 19th, and the devil himself could not have created a more despicable show.
   Overturning the creation story from Genesis, the first episode, "Overture," begins with an introduction that describes Satan as a "rebellious dreamer" who just wanted to give human beings free will. Heaven, in contrast, is heartless and cruel.
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More evidence that smart phones are destroying minds    It now appears that the long term consequences of making childhood a smart phone experience will be very dreadful indeed. If anything, it might be signalling the cause of the dark age of stupidity that we now appear trapped within.

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The Cicadapocalypse Is the Next Thing to End the World  So the latest thing we're supposed to worry about is the Cicadapocalypse as the 13-year and 17-year broods emerge at once for the first time since 1803.

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